Description: Set in the early 1960s, The Learners is a stand-alone sequel to Kidds previous novel, The Cheese Monkeys. Always entertaining and often moving, The Learners is the story of Happy, a young graphic designer who lands his first job at a wacky advertising firm filled with eccentric creative artists.
Brief description:
Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer in New York City whose book-jacket designs have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. He has written about popular culture for McSweeney's, Vogue, New York Times, New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, 2WICE, and others.
Review Quotes:
"Kidd has held up an engrossing, distorting mirror to a time when marketplace language we all now speak was only just being coined."
-- "Calgary Herald (Alberta) "